Exhibitors of Dachshunds and Boston Terriers

Pages

About Us

Page

Welcome to the website for our show dogs under our affix ‘Conchur’.

The kennel started in January 2013 between Marc Smith, Lee Connor and his mother, Lorraine Sorrell. We chose the name ‘Conchur’ as it’s an old Irish variant of Lee’s surname and translates as ‘lover of hounds’.

We all share a keen interest in dogs. Lee and Lorraine have owned many dogs over the years including 7 Dachshunds, 2 Rottweilers and a German Shepherd and Lee has always been a regular visitor to dog shows. He is also a Dog World columnist and blogger, a cartoonist for Dog News USA and a guest writer for other publications in Australia, South Africa and Canada.

Marc is an accountant by profession but decided to take up the hobby in his spare time. He is also training to be a dog judge and carried out his first appointment in March 2015.

Our first show dog was a Miniature Smooth Dachshund, Alfie (Ch Bronia Gregorio JW ShCM), who was bred by Fran Mitchell, a breeder who has made up over 50 UK Champions. Alfie began his show career in May 2013 and recently became a UK Champion at the Three Counties Championship Show in June 2014. During that time he became the first Miniature Smooth Dachshund to win a Hound Group since 2009 and to date remains the only winner of that accolade. Since then Alfie has also branched into the world of celebrity having been selected as the new star of Vitality’s adverts.

In May 2014 we also introduced Lola, a Boston Terrier, to our home. She is also the first dog to bear our affix: Hanaland Bette Davis at Conchur.

In September 2014 we welcomed home Bodie (Wanderhund Fiach Dubh at Conchur), our first Standard Smooth Dachshund. Bodie’s name originates from the Irish for ‘raven’.

In January 2015, after many months of waiting patiently, we travelled to and from Holland to collect a very special puppy – Reba (Lady Godiva v.d. Mibaf’s Hoeve at Conchur). She’s our second Standard Smooth Dachshund and is 6 weeks younger than Bodie. She is a chocolate dapple and we believe the first in the country for a number of years – they were last seen in the show ring quite some time ago. Now over a year old, she has already enjoyed success in the show ring and we look forward to campaigning her throughout 2016 alongside Alfie.

In August 2015, Lola gave birth to our first litter of Boston Terriers. We instantly fell in love with the only girl from the litter and decided to keep her. She’s had a good start to her dog shows during March 2016 so Look out for more of Pebbles in the show ring.

Also during March 2016 Alfie had another Vitality advert to film – this time in Cape Town – and these will be aired from the end of April on ITV and Ch4.

Share this:

2 thoughts on “About Us”

Beautiful dogs We recently lost our Boxer Max he was only 8 years old and he left his daughter Lily who is a white Boxer and we may eventually look into getting her a pal and as we are getting older we need to look at maybe a smaller dog and not a big bouncy boxer lol . I love Dachshunds but know nothing about the breed so just doing some research at the moment . We live very close to the Newbury Showground where they regularly have dog shows so will have to pop down and chat to some breeders :o)